On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:35 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > This could be a way, but I am not yet convinced. Churches, temples and > towers are also monuments, but we don't tag them currently as subtypes > of monument. Indeed the tag historic=monument is very vague and > therefor not very useful IMHO.
Do you mean the documentation is vague? Then let's fix it. My thinking in wanting columns, obelisks, memorials, monuments etc grouped under "historic" is because they're thematically related. Who is likely to want to see them on a map? Probably a tourist or someone with a particular interest in history. Dumping things under man_made=* isn't helpful because virtually everything we map would be either man_made=* or natural=*. We need to build smaller sets of things that work together. Btw your Las Vegas example is clearly an exception. I certainly wouldn't use the same tag for a real, historical obelisk and some sort of advertising feature. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
